are concerned about the WRONG shite. yeah, the truth sometimes isn't pretty is it? the truth doesn't make one HATE their country. the truth baby will set you FREE
hey ms crouse, we can't ALL have white skin. white ain't necessarily right you know
i say bill morgan is taking a step in the right direction
Teachers emphasize the Indians' side
By ANA BEATRIZ CHOLO, Associated Press Writer Tue Nov 21, 6:20 PM ET
LONG BEACH, Calif. - Teacher Bill Morgan walks into his third-grade class wearing a black Pilgrim hat made of construction paper and begins snatching up pencils, backpacks and glue sticks from his pupils. He tells them the items now belong to him because he "discovered" them. The reaction is exactly what Morgan expects: The kids get angry and want their things back.
Morgan is among elementary school teachers who have ditched the traditional Thanksgiving lesson, in which children dress up like Indians and Pilgrims and act out a romanticized version of their first meetings.
He has replaced it with a more realistic look at the complex relationship between Indians and white settlers.
Morgan said he still wants his pupils at Cleveland Elementary School in San Francisco to celebrate Thanksgiving. But "what I am trying to portray is a different point of view."
Others see Morgan and teachers like him as too extreme.
"I think that is very sad," said Janice Shaw Crouse, a former college dean and public high school teacher and now a spokeswoman for Concerned Women for America, a conservative organization. "He is teaching his students to hate their country. That is a very distorted view of history, a distorted view of Thanksgiving."
Even American Indians are divided on how to approach a holiday that some believe symbolizes the start of a hostile takeover of their lands............
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The relationship between the pilgrims and the native tribes was very complex. I recently read the book, Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick, and he explains that through treaties and such, the Pilgrims actually paid a reasonable market value for much of the land they used - - at least through the first generation . . . the cheating and stealing and such didn't start right away.
I think this teacher would have to go a long way to actually show the complexities of the relationships between settlers and natives and in order to do that would have to explain the culture and anthropology of the tribes completely to show that their expectations were molded by their history.
In short, I don't actually approve of his methods. That's not to say that I approve of the historical 'free ride' the pilgrims normally get.
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thanks for the info rick. i think it sounds like an interesting read.
i just think we're NOT getting the WHOLE story in our schools.
I agree with that.
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